Gis Team Leader

Costain Digital
- Digital technology is transforming our world at pace. Costain’s Leading Edge strategy is putting Digital at the heart of our business. Utilising our broad sector knowledge and deep client insight, we transform business performance and infrastructure intelligence through the development and integration of digital technology solutions. Be part of the Journey
- Our mission is to improve people’s lives, by creating digitally enhanced sustainable infrastructure for future generations, and you will have the opportunity to directly see the impact your efforts will have on creating a greener, smarter, more connected world. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of real change in critical national infrastructure that will make tomorrow possible.

Reporting to the Digital Delivery and Technical Integration Leader, the GIS Team Leader will work with teams across the business (including centrally, sectors and contracts) on our multi-disciplinary projects, interfacing with various internal and external clients to understand, shape and deliver their GIS strategy and business requirements.

The GIS Team Leader will manage the demands on the team, and ensure that work is prioritised and delivered to stakeholders to meet quality, time and cost targets.

The role will provide visibility of the GIS team capabilities, and will be responsible for identifying opportunities to implement geospatial solutions and further engagement with projects across the business. Other opportunities for engagement include digital leads, business development, solutions architects and consultants across sectors to identify internal and external opportunities.

The role will provide opportunities to learn new skills and work with different in-house teams from several disciplines to deliver innovative solutions.

Develop client facing opportunities and act as a trusted client advisor
Understand client needs, and provide technical advice and solutions for the client’s consideration
Lead the GIS team, and ensure that stakeholder demands are prioritised, and delivered by the team members within quality, time and cost expectations.
Unlocking the potential of each of the team members, and providing personal development opportunities as appropriate
Ensure GIS mapping, analysis, data capture, data management and geoprocessing are delivered by the team to internal and external clients, to high standards, on time and to budget
Advise project staff on all GIS and workflow automation opportunities
Keep up to speed with the latest and emerging geospatial technologies and data structures
Manage Costain’s ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online, including user management and licencing
Contribute GIS material to bids for new work at Costain
Recruitment, onboarding and ongoing development of new team members to support growth in the GIS area

Have experience with FME and/or programming languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, SQL)
Have knowledge and practical experience of workflow automation and GIS coding (Python or Arcade)
Experience with metadata and data standards
IT literate with previous experience with Microsoft products e.g. Office, Azure, PowerApps, PowerBI
Innovative thinking - seeks opportunities to add value through use of technology and data

**About Costain**

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

At Costain we aim to be an accessible, diverse and inclusive organisation to continue to meet our customers’ needs. We will be industry leading in our approach and people from all backgrounds will be proud to work for Costain. Our goal is to have a workforce that is representative of society.

We will consider all applicants regardless of age, race, faith and socioeconomic background, including those from marginalised groups, such as (but not exclusive to):
People who identify as LGBT+, including non-binary people
People with physical or neurological disabilities
People who have mental ill health

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working, such as